Improved mode of producing mixed colored woolens



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFI E.

STANISLAS VIGOUREUX, OF RHEIMS, FRANCE IMPROVED MODE OF PRODUCING MlXEDCOLORED WOOLENS, &c.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 41,878, dated March 8,18 64.

To all whom it may concern: I

Be it known that I, STANISLAS VIGOU- REUX, of Rheims, in the Empire ofFrance, have invented a new and Improved Method of Producing MixedColored Woolen and other Threads; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

In the'spinning of filamentous substances, in order to produce mixedcolored thread, each shade or color'is dyed separately. Thedifferent-colored filaments are afterward united and passed throughpreparing and spinning machines. Notwithstanding the greatest care toequalize the mixture of the colors, especially when they areopposite--sueh as black and white-there form and remain in the threadveins or stripes different from the ground.

The object of this invention is to overcome this defect. h

The invention consists in dyeing or printing the filaments with chinageor marks of colors, by any suitable means, upon parts of their length,in sections and in one or more colors, before being made into thread,prior to their being subjected to the operations of mixing by theordinary machinery, in order to obtain a new kind of mixed threadsuitable for manufacturing purposes. If,- for example, the filaments aretwo, four, six, eight, fifteen, or twcntyincheslong, (more orless,) andif by dyeing, printing, or other means of coloring the color isrepeated, say, from inch to inch, or any other regular or irregulardistances, it will be understood that after they have been subjectedtothe various passages in the course of their preparation the resultingthreads and fabric will show effects varied accordingto the length ofthe portions colored and repeated over the filaments. The result of thismethod of coloring the filaments in sections is to produce by theultimate sliding of the filaments over one another, and by thesuperposition of the colors during the passage of the filaments throughthe preparing-machines, a conglomcration of colors, and consequently aregular well-blended mixture with different shades of threads.

This method of coloring filaments in sections is applicable to wool,cotton, floss-silk, flax, hair, and to all other textile or filament ousmaterial. and it can be applied to the filaments in any stage of theirpreparation prior to their formation into threads for the manufacture oftextile and other fabrics. If, for example, carded or other wool is tobe operated upon, when the card is used, as in the preparing-machine,the coloring of the filaments in sections may be performed when the woolis in its raw state after washing, and after the grease has beenremoved, or after the wool has undergone one or several cardings, orwhen the wool has been submitted to some of the passages through thepreparing-machines employed in spinning to obtain the thread. If combedwool is to be operated on, the coloring of the filaments in sections maybe effected at any of the preceding cardings of the carded wool, orbefore or after combing.

The coloring of filaments of any kind may be effected by dyeing orprinting by any of the known methods, or by any coloring processwhatever that practice may suggest. Thus, as an example of how theprinting may be performed in sections on the filaments ot' combed wool,take slivers of combed wool, place them on bobbins to unroll, and unitein groups in order to draw them out-and present them flat to the actionof printing-rollers generally employed for printing-fabrics. On leavingthe rollers the slivers are conveyed upon an endless web or otherwise,to have the impression dried by means of heated pipes, fans, orotherwise.

The shades and effects of the mixture may be varied either by alteringthe spaces between the colors, or by mixing the filaments colored insections with white filaments, or with filaments dyed or colored allover, and not in sections.

To hide the shade of the raw material in this method of coloringfilaments in sections, the filaments may be dyed, printed, or, coloredin one or in several colors, or theraw ma- 7 terial may be dyed anydesired color, and the process before described of coloriu g in sectionsmay be afterward applied and Having now described the nature of the saidinvention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declarethat I claim- The manufacture of mixed colored woolen and other threadsfrom filaments dyed, printed, or colored in sections in the mannerhereinbefore described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification beforetwo subscribing witnesses.

SA S. VIGOUREUX.

Witnesses E. GAUME, E. SHERMAN GOULD.

